The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-30
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss GERTRUDE HALL. daughter OF
Ex-Governor Hall, of New Hampshire.
has accepted the principalship Of the
Monsoon Academy, Monson. Mass
Mrs. A. NJ. HOLLOWAY has been
awarded the contract to clean the
streets of Buffalo, N. Y. for five years.
for $447. 900.
Mrs. CUMMINGS, of WOburn, Mass,
who gave handsome library building
to the two towns of TiltOn and North
field, N. H.. has added to her gift a
library of eight hundred volumes.
Mrs. ADA NJ. RIrTENBENDER was
nominated by the Nebraska Prohibi-
ton convention rs their candidate for
district Judge. Mrs. Rittenbender is
member of the Lincoln bar, and much
esteemed.
Mrs. c. L. RoDDEY is the inventor
of many devices used in kindergarten
work. just now she is superintend-
ing the manufacture. at Springfield.
of five hundred models of kinder
garten slate.
EMILY S. BOUTON, in her "House-
hold Column" of the Toledo Blade, is
doing excellent service for women.
She gives valuable suggestions and adj
vice for the material needs of women,
which deserve to be preserved in book
form.
THE higher education of women is
not lessening their fitness to be moth
ers of the next generation; it is fur
nisliing the mothers of the race to be,
with the education and culture which
will maze the training of the genera
ton worthy of its origin Herald.
Miss JOSEPHINE POLLARD has as
sisted John H. Vincent. of Chautau-
qua, in compiling large and striking
guarto volume, entitled 1.-The Home
Book" designed as home library
"for very little people, their brothers
and sisters, their mothers and teach
ers."
Mrs. POLLY FORD, of Milford. near
New Haven, was one hundred years
old on September 1. She has not been
to church since 1896. but is a member
of tile Congregational denomination.
When in her eightythird year she re-
ceived her second sight, and can see
better than many at sixty years of
age.
ARE we an unhealthy nation? There
are more than three times rs many
physicians in America as in France,
proportionately. What would become
of this army of doctors if American
women were to dress properly and ex-
ercise IN the open air regularity
Eliza Putnam HeGton, in Brooklyn
Times.
DIR. ELIZABETH BEATTY, of Indore.
sent out by the Presbyterian church in
Canada as a medical missionary. has
treated over six thousand patients in
the past twelve months. and thinks a
hospital and training-school for Hin
doc women would make thousands of
converts to Christianity. = Woman's
Journal.
Miss CHARLOTTE MORRILL,, who has
been spoken of as a possible successor
to Miss Freeman rs president of
Wellesley, is secretary of the Adclphi
Academy, of Brooklyn. She is a fine
looking woman, with a clear, healthy
complexion. bright eyes and dark hair.
She has quick smile, is brilliant
talker, is the persOnification of COM
nonsense and goodwill. and has been
actively engaged in educational work
for years.
Mrs. FAIRBANKS addressed the Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections at
its session in Omaha, Neb., August
90, on the subject of work among
children. She presented paper by
Mrs. F. H. Pierce, at Davenport Ia.
emphasizing the value of kindness
with children, especially young girls,
and, above all, working-girls. Mrs.
Lizzie Gorgas, matron of the Child's
Home at Defiance. o.. read paper on
the location of institutions for the care
of children. and Mrs. Virginia S.
Smith, of Connecticut, spoke Of the
economy OF the State in the care of de-
pendent children.
Mrs. GOVERNOR CLAFLIN, for the
purpose of saving influence on the
children who roamed near her home.
has organized them into a Loyal
League, to be Differed by the young
people themselves. The members all
sign a pledge to use no oaths or vul-
gar language; neither alcoholic liquors
nor tobacco. and to seek to perform as
many acts of kindness as possible. A
fine playground on the premises is ar
ranged for them. At their meetings,
which are quite frequent, all the for
malities of well-cOnducted club are
scrupulously attended to-of itself an
invaluable discipline tor the children.
Any breaches of the pledge are then
considered, the lads themselves pro-
posing q fine in such cases. and the
members are called upon to mention
any acts of thoughtfulness or kindness
that they have performed for others
since the previous meeting. The re-
suit already appears in the subsistence
of the use of oaths and tobacco, and in
the increased respect for the amenities
of life. Mrs. Claflin invited these chill
dren to her own beautiful home, ard
thus gave them an idea of better
home life than they had known. The
example is an excellent one. worthy of
imitation.